The East Hampton Town Board will soon issue a request for applications for water quality improvement awards, based on a recommendation from its water quality technical advisory committee.     

Loretta A. Goetz, who was well-known for her knitting and her service to East Hampton Meals on Wheels, died at home in East Hampton on Dec. 20 of cardiac arrest after having a stroke.

Geraldine Boxer died at home in East Hampton last Thursday after receiving an unexpected diagnosis of Stage 4 esophageal cancer in mid-December.

Cynthia Leigh Silverman, a longtime summer resident of Amagansett who was studying for a joint degree in law and international affairs at the City University of New York, died in New York City on Dec. 14. She was 29.

A 64-year-old man told police he was getting out of the ocean near the first jetty on Georgia Beach at about 4:45 p.m. on Jan. 8, when a medium-size black-and-white dog aggressively chased him.

Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead celebrated the completion of its new $67.8 million facility on Friday. 

The Corey Critical Care Pavilion and Kanas Regional Heart Center on Roa­noke Avenue at the hospital offers more lifesaving services on the East End, according to officials with Northwell Health, which Peconic Bay Medical Center joined in 2016.

Russell Bennett, the front office manager at The East Hampton Star next door, was the 10,000th customer Wednesday. He got a large coffee.

Pity the drivers who must daily wend the pitted hellscape that is the East Hampton-Sag Harbor Road, better known as New York State Route 114.

East Hampton Village has a new official flag depicting a windmill, the ocean, and a passing seagull overhead. It is attractive and it also contains an error.

What a thrill it was to attend a performance of Gershwin’s “Porgy & Bess” last week at the Metropolitan Opera. The tickets had been purchased a long time ago as a present from my husband, Chris Cory, but he was under the weather and unable to attend. Instead, his sister, Eleanor Cory, a composer and dear friend, attended with me.

It had been a while since it happened that I was mistaken for Breadzilla Brad.

Usually around the time of his birthday, I quote Dr. Martin Luther King’s assertion that it’s abominable that poverty continues to exist in a country as rich as this, and there his words, lifted from “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community,” written in 1967, lie, until I exhume them again a year hence.

Patricia Assui Reed, the owner of Matriark in Sag Harbor, has launched the Matriark Club, a series of workshops, dinners, and other events to be held mostly at the store.

Norman Jaffe’s landmark design for Harold Becker’s house in a Wainscott pasture taught me that rule-bending buildings can change your mental space, your emotional compass, your perception of the relationship between nature and human nature.

Top Drawer Lingerie, which has been in business in East Hampton Village for 29 years, will close by the end of March, its owner, Margarette Doyle, announced.

The AIA Peconic Design Awards were announced during a program on Saturday at the Ross School in East Hampton. A reception and People’s Choice Award voting took place before the ceremony, which was hosted by the architect Bill Chaleff, who presented the awards along with Michele Hugo, a past president of AIA Peconic.

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Suffolk County Police homicide detectives arrested a man they said punched Wayne Sapiane in the head in Riverhead on Jan. 2.  Mr. Sapiane, who was 65, later died. 

East Hampton High’s boys swimming team improved its League II record to 4-0 last week after lopsided wins over North Babylon and Northport.